The Pentium 4, to be introduced at 1.4GHz and 1.5GHz clock speeds,
features a new architecture designed not only to provide faster frequencies
but to boost performance of multimedia encryption, such as that involved in
audio and video editing.
Multimedia encryption? What the hell is that?
Where does ZDNet find these people it tries to pass off as writers, anyway?
This is wrong, this isn't the way SSL works.
SSL replaces the standard read() and write()
calls with SSL_read() and SSL_write(). The data
are encrypted before they leave the browser. Any
program that could see the data in between the
client and server couldn't accurately be described
as a proxy, but rather as a man-in-the-middle attack.
The Amiga Unix has the distinction of being the first commercially-released SVR4.
I've got an A3000-UX sitting in my apartment. One of these days I hope to get it up and running.
Ye gods, reading Suck annoys the hell out of me. It's like a Powerpoint presentation. It takes more time to load than to read.
Very well tuned to the gnat-like attention spans
of the MTV generation, I suppose.
Easier to use than Windows? That's a dubious goal at best -- the wrong target to shoot for, entirely. Easier to use than MacOS would be a much more worthy goal. I say this because it's almost impossible for someone who is not well-versed in the ins and outs of various Windows quirks to keep a Windows machine working well for more than a few months at a time.
WHY? So I can listen to low-bitrate MP3s in the tiny memory that it will undoubtedly have, over a crappy speaker? So that I can run down the battery of my cell phone even faster?
Hey! I've got a great idea! I'm going to combine a toaster and a cement mixer! I'm going to only sell it online, too! It'll run Linux!
Despite the clamor surrounding Linux and the Open Source movement, author and leading X/Motif software developer Antony Fountain maintains that Motif remains the quiet vanguard of commercial software development for large-scale Unix applications. As the native toolkit for the X Window System, a graphical Unix programming interface, Motif continues to be supported by major workstation vendors such as Sun, Hewlett-Packard, and SGI.
Funny, I thought the only "native" widget set shipped with the X Window System was Athena...
I've never seen a standard PC BIOS I've liked. In this day and age, machines should have real firmware, like Sun boxen, SGIs, IBMs... even Apple is getting into the act by using OpenFirmware. PC BIOSes are so incredibly limited, and, at this stage in the game, really don't need to support DOS. You should be able to netboot a Intel- or Transmeta- based machine as easily as you can a Sun.
You want SMIT. Seriously. People bash AIX to no end, but it is the only Unix I've ever seen that does graphical admin right, logging and showing the user exactly what it is doing.
Of course, the first rule of AIX is that it ain't Unix, and the second rule of AIX is use SMIT for everything. SMIT will keep you from shooting yourself in the foot, but it does things weirdly enough that if you don't use it, you'll blow your leg off.
Christ, I'm getting so incredibly sick of EIDE. First: A fast 7200 RPM drive will deliver no more than about 8-10 MB/s. Because of the brain-damaged nature of EIDE allowing only one device to talk at a time, anything beyond EIDE/16 has been useless dickwaving. Second: It's a creeping evil. Plextor has recently released an EIDE CD-R. My local Microcenter has completely stopped selling SCSI drives. They only stock Maxtor drives, as well. SCSI is no more expensive to produce then EIDE. IBM is at least good enough to not shaft people too for buying SCSI, and their UltraStar drives are the finest hard drives that can be had for love or money. But people will continue to buy crap, driving quality out of the market. Before too long, you won't be able to buy quality at all, or at least at anything approching a reasonable price.
The GLX thet the TNT2 and TNT uses only works at 15-bit and 16-bit colour. Any other depth and the reverts back to software.
Yes. This was in the release notes. 32bit color would be nice, I agree wholeheartedly.
Was there any justification for this? It's a limitation of older nVidia hardware, but this driver was released primarily for the TNT. Is there something so hard about detecting the older cards, but allowing 32bpp on newer ones? Or is it a limitation of the current version of GLX? Do the Matrox cards allow 32bpp accelerated?
I see no reason to buy a vastly overpriced (the cables are expensive because they're hand-made? Give me a break!) keyboard that seems to have been designed with the soul purpose of causing horrible wrist injuries.
I mean, really. Ergonomics exists for a reason. The only redeeming feature of this keyboard is that it doesn't have those damnable windows keys.
In my mind, the IBM PS/2 keyboard is the finest keyboard ever made. You can pick them up around here (Boston) refurbished at trade shows for about $15. They have a perfect feel, and, in my mind, the keys are all in the right places.
I like two control keys. I'm a touch-typist. Most of the useful control chars for emacs and the shell are on the left side of the keyboard (a,s,x,c,d,z,w), requiring a control key on the right side of the keyboard. I can take or leave the caps lock key, but a control key to the left of the 'a' is purest evil for finger injuries.
I spent the first year after coming out here as a contract sysadmin. I spent that year using Sun type-5 keyboards. They seem to be designed specifically to cause wrist injury. They have a horrid feel, a horrid slope, and are way too wide. I always end up remapping one of the diamond keys to be a right control.
I'm curious why they chose to limit the driver to 16 bitplanes. It's not as though the chipset has ever been limited to 16BPP in 3D. Is this a limitation of DGA? GLX? Mesa?
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Multimedia encryption? What the hell is that? Where does ZDNet find these people it tries to pass off as writers, anyway?
The contents of the window look NeXTy, but the window manager is 4Dwm -- SGI's modified MWM.
This is wrong, this isn't the way SSL works. SSL replaces the standard read() and write() calls with SSL_read() and SSL_write(). The data are encrypted before they leave the browser. Any program that could see the data in between the client and server couldn't accurately be described as a proxy, but rather as a man-in-the-middle attack.
The Amiga Unix has the distinction of being the first commercially-released SVR4.
I've got an A3000-UX sitting in my apartment. One of these days I hope to get it up and running.
Ye gods, reading Suck annoys the hell out of me. It's like a Powerpoint presentation. It takes more time to load than to read.
Very well tuned to the gnat-like attention spans of the MTV generation, I suppose.
Easier to use than Windows? That's a dubious goal at best -- the wrong target to shoot for, entirely. Easier to use than MacOS would be a much more worthy goal.
I say this because it's almost impossible for someone who is not well-versed in the ins and outs of various Windows quirks to keep a Windows machine working well for more than a few months at a time.
WHY? So I can listen to low-bitrate MP3s in the tiny memory that it will
undoubtedly have, over a crappy speaker? So that I can run down the battery of
my cell phone even faster?
Hey! I've got a great idea! I'm going to combine a toaster and a cement
mixer! I'm going to only sell it online, too!
It'll run Linux!
*runs off to register e-toastmixer.com*
Despite the clamor surrounding Linux and the Open
...
Source movement, author and leading X/Motif
software developer Antony Fountain maintains that
Motif remains the quiet vanguard of commercial
software development for large-scale Unix
applications. As the native toolkit for the X Window
System, a graphical Unix programming interface,
Motif continues to be supported by major workstation
vendors such as Sun, Hewlett-Packard, and SGI.
Funny, I thought the only "native" widget set shipped with the X Window System was Athena
From where I'm sitting, it looks more like two of Satan's minions.
Ever run an SGI or Sun server-classed system from a text terminal?
Didn't think so.
You obviously have no idea what you're talking about.
I've never seen a standard PC BIOS I've liked. In this day and age, machines should have real firmware, like Sun boxen, SGIs, IBMs ... even Apple is getting into the act by using OpenFirmware. PC BIOSes are so incredibly limited, and, at this stage in the game, really don't need to support DOS. You should be able to netboot a Intel- or Transmeta- based machine as easily as you can a Sun.
You want SMIT. Seriously. People bash AIX to no end, but it is the only Unix I've ever seen that does graphical admin right, logging and showing the user exactly what it is doing.
Of course, the first rule of AIX is that it ain't Unix, and the second rule of AIX is use SMIT for everything. SMIT will keep you from shooting yourself in the foot, but it does things weirdly enough that if you don't use it, you'll blow your leg off.
Christ, I'm getting so incredibly sick of EIDE. First: A fast 7200 RPM drive will deliver no more than about 8-10 MB/s. Because of the brain-damaged nature of EIDE allowing only one device to talk at a time, anything beyond EIDE/16 has been useless dickwaving. Second: It's a creeping evil. Plextor has recently released an EIDE CD-R. My local Microcenter has completely stopped selling SCSI drives. They only stock Maxtor drives, as well. SCSI is no more expensive to produce then EIDE. IBM is at least good enough to not shaft people too for buying SCSI, and their UltraStar drives are the finest hard drives that can be had for love or money. But people will continue to buy crap, driving quality out of the market. Before too long, you won't be able to buy quality at all, or at least at anything approching a reasonable price.
The GLX thet the TNT2 and TNT uses only works at 15-bit and 16-bit colour. Any other depth and the reverts back to software.
Yes. This was in the release notes. 32bit color would be nice, I agree wholeheartedly.
Was there any justification for this? It's a limitation of older nVidia hardware, but this driver was released primarily for the TNT. Is there something so hard about detecting the older cards, but allowing 32bpp on newer ones? Or is it a limitation of the current version of GLX?
Do the Matrox cards allow 32bpp accelerated?
It's text-only, and I've not had a chance to
look at it yet, but it is available at http://www.gis.net/~nite/.
I see no reason to buy a vastly overpriced (the cables are expensive because they're hand-made? Give me a break!) keyboard that seems to have been designed with the soul purpose of causing horrible wrist injuries.
I mean, really. Ergonomics exists for a reason. The only redeeming feature of this keyboard is that it doesn't have those damnable windows keys.
In my mind, the IBM PS/2 keyboard is the finest keyboard ever made. You can pick them up around here (Boston) refurbished at trade shows for about $15. They have a perfect feel, and, in my mind, the keys are all in the right places.
I like two control keys. I'm a touch-typist. Most of the useful control chars for emacs and the shell are on the left side of the keyboard (a,s,x,c,d,z,w), requiring a control key on the right side of the keyboard. I can take or leave the caps lock key, but a control key to the left of the 'a' is purest evil for finger injuries.
I spent the first year after coming out here as a contract sysadmin. I spent that year using Sun type-5 keyboards. They seem to be designed specifically to cause wrist injury. They have a horrid feel, a horrid slope, and are way too wide. I always end up remapping one of the diamond keys to be a right control.
This happened to me, as well.
I've got a TNT. I just got it running.
:)
It's definately doing software rendering at 32BPP.
GL Screensavers run rather too fast, though, in
16BPP
However, it seems to be not synching to refresh
when screensavers are run at -root, leading to
high amounts of flicker -- anyone else seen this?
I'm curious why they chose to limit the driver
to 16 bitplanes. It's not as though the chipset
has ever been limited to 16BPP in 3D. Is this
a limitation of DGA? GLX? Mesa?
I hope this is fixed soon.